Monthly Archives: May 2020

I. December 7, 1941

On Monday, December 8, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in requesting a Declaration of War against Imperial Japan, described Sunday December 7, 1941 as “A Date That Will Live in Infamy.”

On Pearl Harbor Day, Sunday December 7, 1941, 2335 American military (2008 sailors, 218 soldiers, 109 marines) along with 68 civilians were killed.  Another 1178 were wounded.

America in the 1940’s was a country of personal-liberty-loving free…..

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